Principal Software Engineer - Maintenance @ Pegasystems Worldwide

Pega is changing the way the world builds software. Pega is a leader in CRM software space, our goal is to be the #1 CRM SaaS provider in the world.

Our team consists of top-notch engineers who are highly motivated, self-driven, have strong sense of ownership and passionate about customer success. We strive for excellence and embrace agile methodologies to achieve it. Pega lets us be independent and creative in the way we build software, we return this trust by being accountable for the software we build.

In this role, you will engage deeply in maintaining core features of Pega platform which runs thousands of CRM and DPA applications around the world. Understand how Pega platform allows applications to be built for change. Deep dive into data modelling and declarative aspects of Pega platform. Experience working with both monolithic and modularized code, giving you a unique opportunity to compare both worlds at one place. Follows best practices to build clean and maintainable code. Mentor junior team members and lead by example.

• You will start by learning about Pega platform and use it to rapidly build an application
• Learn to use team owned features in detail, which include data model, memory model, declarative programming paradigm, assembled rule cache
• Understand design and implementation of team owned features
• Own quality and maintenance of team owned features
• Actively collaborate with Product owner & team members to come up with backward compatible and focused solutions for issues reported by customers
• Write automated tests for code changes made to fix issues
• Do root cause analysis for high severity issues
• Come up with proposals to improve quality and reliability of team owned features
• Mentor junior team members and guide them to solve issues
• Work closely with various stakeholders such as support team, release management
• Collaborate with quality services organization (consists of experts in quality assurance area) to learn and latest best practices to maintain software
• Have fun with team at lunch, recreational area, quarterly outings, box cricket, 10k runs
• Use various tools, languages and libraries like Git, Gradle, Docker, Jenkins, IntelliJ, Linux, Java, JUnit, JGiven, Groovy, Spock, cloud technologies